Coinbase, Cloudflare and Stripe announced on April 2 the creation of the x402 Foundation, a non-profit organization that will manage the x402 payments protocol as an open internet standard and brought together 23 founding companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Shopify and the Solana Foundation. The x402 Foundation, in turn, … Read more
Algorand, Solana, and the XRP Ledger have already executed transactions with quantum-resistant signatures. Networks like Quantum Resistant Ledger were born with post-quantum cryptography since their launch. A Google Quantum AI study published on March 30, which estimated that a quantum computer could compromise Bitcoin cryptography in less than nine minutes, also identified cryptocurrency networks that … Read more
Google notes that “save now, decrypt later” attacks are already a problem. The company will integrate a NIST post-quantum standard into Android 17. Google’s security team assured on March 25 that 2029 should be the deadline year to complete the migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), and recommended any organization that depends on authentication and digital … Read more
The change would apply to the entire system architecture, not just individual apps. Google has been working on post-quantum cryptography since 2016 and sets 2029 as the migration deadline. Google announced this March 25, 2026 that Android 17 will integrate post-quantum cryptography (PQC) improvements starting in the next beta version, followed by general availability in … Read more
The Arthur D. Little Company (ADL), the world’s first and oldest management consulting firm, published an update to its 2022 “Blue Shift” report on the state of quantum computing. There he concludes that, despite recent technical advances and billions of dollars in public and private investment, the mass commercialization of this technology still faces significant … Read more
London- Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS are facing a new investigation from Britain’s competition watchdog, which launched the investigation targeting the two tech giants’ mobile phone ecosystem under new powers to crack down on digital market abuse. Announced on Thursday. The Competition and Markets Authority said it has launched separate investigations to determine whether the … Read more
Recently, the technology giant Google launched a quantum chip called Willow. The processing capacity of this chip has been described in an attractive way for marketing, saying that it can solve in 5 minutes a mathematical problem “that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years (that is, 10 25), a number that far exceeds the … Read more
Hypothetically, a powerful quantum computer would compromise BTC’s cryptography. Bitcoin uses algorithms to protect digital signatures for transactions and mining. On December 9, tech giant Google announced the launch of Willow, its new quantum chip. This advance sparked debates about the potential impact of this technology on the security of Bitcoin (BTC), whose cryptography is … Read more
Visitors to the old Bitcoin mailing list archive page now encounter a clear error message: “There is no bitcoin-dev list.” This marks the end of an era in digital currency development communication, as the Bitcoin Core mailing list has been completely removed from its former home at the Linux Foundation. The poste restanteknown as bitcoin-dev, … Read more
This feature, launched in May for select users, is now available globally. The Ethereum Naming Service was also integrated into its testnets, Sepolia and Holesky. Google incorporated the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) on October 8. Ethereum Name Service) in your search engine. This integration allows users search for addresses Ethereum (ETH) in the search engine … Read more